Which plants will survive and can I use grey water? Gardening as UK summers get drier
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Key context: <p>As parts of Beth Chatto’s visionary drought-tolerant gardens in Essex turn brown, the head gardener offers advice</p><p>Her debut book, in 1978, was titled The Dry Garden. Since then, the late Beth Chatto created <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/aug/08/dont-add-water-be-inspired-plant-beautiful-dry-garden">a rich legacy</a> with her expertise as a plantswoman and by setting up one of the oldest unwatered public gardens in England.</p><p>Once a car park but transformed in 1992 into an experiment to test what plants were drought-tolerant in Essex, the driest county in the UK, Chatto’s gravel gardens south of Clacton are being visibly tested this year.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/aug/16/which-plants-survive-use-grey-water-gardening-uk-drought">Continue reading...</a> This development from The Guardian highlights ongoing changes in the sector.
As parts of Beth Chatto’s visionary drought-tolerant gardens in Essex turn brown, the head gardener offers adviceHer debut book, in 1978, was titled The Dry Garden. Since then, the late Beth Chatto created a rich legacy with her expertise as a plantswoman and by setting up one of the oldest unwatered public gardens in England.Once a car park but transformed in 1992 into an experiment to test what plants were drought-tolerant in Essex, the driest county in the UK, Chatto’s gravel gardens south of Clacton are being visibly tested this year. Continue reading...
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